BBQ St Louis

BBQ restaurants in St Louis are always fun to visit as the atmosphere is often very casual, relaxed and playful. The best part is, the food is spectacular. Barbecue restaurants vary in terms of the type of food that is served. Some restaurants like to serve Mediterranean or Oriental cuisine, while others are heavily influenced by Asian or American cuisine. No matter what type of cuisine a restaurant goes with, all have this in common: the manner in which the food is cooked. BBQ style cooking involves using wood, an open flame, and charcoal. More modern restaurants may use electric grills. Some STL barbecue restaurants have gotten so creative with their methods that they sometimes prepare and serve the food outdoors.

One primary reason why St Louis restaurants are so popular in the United States is because of the sauces that are served with the food items. Many restaurants spring up on the left and the right just to compete with other restaurants. Many times the sauce served alongside the food is the ‘secret weapon’. Many of the best St Louis restaurants offer their own unique flavours and characteristics. For instance, some serve mayonnaise with their slaw while others prefer to leave it out.

BBQ Restaurants St. Louis

Sugarfire Smokehouse Brain child of well known chef Mike Johnson and Carolyn Downs of Cyrano’s.Our brisket and Memphis style ribs are delicious, as well as our grass-fed burgers, fries, and shakes. Come in and see for yourself!

Doc’s Smokehouse 618-656-6060 We are a Pro BBQ Circuit team that opened a brick and mortar store. We have hundreds of BBQ awards for our custom smoked meats. Doc has been smoking meats for 40 years! Stop in and check us out!

Iron Barley Iron Barley has been popular for years and specializes in smoked meats and craft beers. Come visit us in our new location in High Ridge.

Kenrick’s Meats and Catering Kenrick’s is an old fashioned butcher shop, providing you with the freshest, highest quality meats in the St. Louis area since 1945.

Seamus McDaniel’s We are a family restaurant serving the community some of the finest food in the area since 1985. Located in Dogtown just across from the zoo, come visit us!

While the sauces served with the dishes may vary in different states, the type of food served is the same. Meat, poultry and fish are the types of food most commonly used in barbecue restaurants, popular dishes served at restaurants include everything from grilled lobster to grilled corn. Typical items that can be found on a St Louis Barbecue restaurant menu include grilled steaks, grilled hotdogs, and burgers, gourmet sausages, marinated skirt, steak, teriyaki chicken strips, Korean BBQ, beef spareribs, pork tenderloin and lamb chops.

BBQ restaurants in Memphis like to use tomato and vinegar-based sauces while Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee usually serve their pork dishes with a sweet, tomato-based sauce. In Kansas, restaurants like to experiment with different types of meat for their dishes. Kentucky is the one state that is set apart in terms of food that is served. BBQ restaurants in Kentucky like to serve mutton. At present, Lexington, Kentucky is known as ‘The Barbecue Capital of the World’.